390 AVES. 



their beak and their semi-palmated external toes, furnish a mark 

 which may assist us to recognize them. This bird, common 

 to the whole north of Europe, is also found on the coast of 

 France, particularly in the spring, but it does not build 

 there. (1) 



There are some small birds in America resembling the Sand- 

 pipers, whose feet are semi-palmated anteriorly; (the Hemipa- 

 LAMA, Bonap.) Tringa semi-palmata, Wils., VII, Ixiii, 4; 

 Tringa brevirostris, Spix, xciii. 

 It appears that it is near the Sandpipers we must place the 



EuRiNORHYNOHus, Wilson. 



Which is distinguished from them by its depressed bill, widened 

 at the end almost like that of the Spoonbill, the only known species 

 of which, 



Platalea pygrmea, 1,.', Eurinorhynchus grfsez^s, Wils., Thunb., 

 Acad., Suec, pi. VI, is one of the rarest in existence, for only 

 a single individual has been found: it is grey above, white be- 

 neath, and hardly as large as a Pelidna. 



Phalaropus, Briss.(2) 



Small birds, whose bill, though flatter than that of the Sandpipers, 

 is similarly proportioned, and has the same grooves; the toes also 

 are bordered with wide membranes like those of Fulica. The spe- 

 cies known, 



Phal.fulicarius, Bonap.; Tringa lobatadLixd Tr.fiiUcaria, L.(3) 

 has a very large beak for a member of this family. In winter, 

 it is ash-coloured above; beneath, and the head, whitish; a 

 black band on the neck: it is then the Ti'. lobata, Edw. 308, In 

 summer it becomes black, streaked with fawn colour above, and 

 reddish beneath: there is at all times a white band on the wing, 

 which is blackish: it is then the Phalaropus riifics, Bechst. and 



Sp. IT; Briss. V, pi. xvii, fig. 1, quoted by Gmel. under Scol. calidris; the true 

 Maubeche, Briss. V, pi. xx, fig. 1 {Tringa calidris, Gm. ): the bird of Frisch, pi. 

 238, are all ruffs in different states of plumage, many other varieties of which 

 might still be represented. 



According to Meyer, the Tringa grenovicensis, Lath, is also a young Ruff. 



(1) A true Ruff was shot on Long Island a few weeks ago (May 1830). It is 

 the only one ever found in this country, ^m. Ed. 



(2) Vieillot has changed this name into Crtmophile, Gal., pi. 270. 



(3) Meyer improperly confounds this bird, Edw. 308, with the Tringa hyper- 

 horea and the Tringa fusca, which have the beak of a Totanus, and of which we 

 make our Lobipes. 



